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>On top of that e-paper readers so far have effectively been a fad, conventional smartphones and tablets have taken over pretty dramatically.

Yeah. I like my Paperwhite well enough for certain uses but I'm not even sure I would replace it if it broke tomorrow. And I'm a little surprised at the degree to which people have stuck with physical books even when it's just flowing text. I'm at the point where a new book means a book I have needs to be donated. I'd much rather books that are just text are digital. But then, in normal times, I'm traveling most of the time.

E-books really haven't ended up being that much of a revolution and certainly dedicated readers are not.